![]() ![]() After Lord Lovelace had removed from Ockham to Horsley Towers they were superintended by the Misses Lushington, daughters of Dr. There were masters' houses, in one of which infants were taught up to seven years old. As children were attracted from neighbouring parishes, accommodation for boarders was provided. The subjects of school lessons were also more advanced than was then common in village schools, and there was a gymnasium. Besides the ordinary village school, they included workshops where the children were taught carpentry, the use of the lathe, and gardening. ![]() In 1836 elaborate schools were planned by Ada Lovelace, Lady King, daughter of In 1831, Alice, unmarried, was living with her sister Edith Grace and this Stephen Lushington was a judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1838 and Dean of Arches from 1858 to 1867. Sarah Carr's sisters were Laura, Lady Cranworth whose husband, a Whig politician was twice Lord Chancellor and a neighbour a friend of Charles Darwin and Isabella, Lady Eardley whose husband was Sir Culing Eardley a religious campaigner and a prime mover in the founding of the Evangelical Alliance. In 1821 Stephen Lushington married Sarah Grace Carr (died 1837) whose father Thomas Carr, a Scottish lawyer, had known Sir Walter Scott and Robert Southey and whose circle of friends included the writers Joanna Baillie, Maria Edgeworth, and Anna Letitia Barbauld together with Harriet Martineau, Henry Crabb Robinson, Sir Humphrey Davy, Lady Byron and William Wordsworth. ![]() It was there that the two celebrated former slaves William and Ellen Craft were both educated and employed after their escape from the USA. A neighbour wrote 'At Ockham Park the famous Dr Lushington collected around him the cleverest folk of the day' and visitors at Ockham included John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt, William Michael Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Lear, Benjamin Jowett and the Christian Socialist F D Maurice.Īt Ockham Lushington's daughters took over the running of the Ockham Industrial Schools which had been created under Lady Byron's influence. Stephen Lushington spent the last years of his life at Ockham Park, Surrey which belonged to the Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace. He was also involved with members of the Clapham Sect. Throughout his life, Stephen was an ardent reformer and staunch churchman, campaigning for the abolition of capital punishment and supporting his friend William Wilberforce by speaking in favour of the Slave Trade Abolition Bill. Stephen Lushington was an eminent lawyer who made his reputation as counsel to Queen Caroline, wife of George IV, in the matter of her divorce, and to Lady Byron in her divorce. Lushington was born in Great George Street, Westminster, London, to Stephen Lushington and Sarah Grace Together with her sister Frances (born 1827), she later opened the Ockham Teachers of the Voluntary School in Liverpool which were opened in 1881. She was also Lady Principal of the College for Female Pupil Women Teachers for High Education opened in 1878, now called the Maria Grey She became Lady Principal of the First College for Training Alice Lushington (ApDecember 18, 1903) was a pioneerĮducationalist. ![]()
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